Category: Garden & Bed Weeds

Poison ivy has three leaflets and hairy aerial roots; Virginia creeper has five leaflets and disc-tipped tendrils. Here's how to tell them apart in every season, what each does to skin and pets, and...

Hairy bittercress sprouts in fall, hides as a flat rosette all winter, then fires its seeds feet away in spring. Here's how to identify it and the timing that actually stops it.

Henbit germinates in fall and flowers in spring. Identify it by its clasping leaves, then pull, mulch or spray in fall for the best control window.

Bindweed vs morning glory: check the root, leaf shape, flower size and bracts, then use the right plan to get rid of field bindweed for good.

Purslane is a tough summer weed and an edible green. Identify it, tell it from toxic spurge, control it in lawns and beds, and eat it safely.

Spurge can set seed five weeks after it sprouts. How to identify spotted and ground spurge and stop it in lawns, beds and paving cracks.